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In the latest sign of friction between President Bush and members of his party in Congress, a Republican-dominated committee votes to block the Dubai Ports World deal. The move by a House panel puts Congress on a collision course with the president, who has threatened a veto.

A British magazine about business and global politics seems an unlikely hit among American readers. But The Economist is defying expectations. It has doubled its readership in the U.S. since 1993.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Adolphus Belk, Jr., a professor at Winthrop University in South Carolina, who says it is possible that the alleged shooter can be prosecuted under the act.

Dubai, the small Arab sheikhdom behind the U.S. ports controversy, is one of the fastest-growing and most cosmopolitan cities in the world. But diplomats and others say there's a dark side to the economic boom -- poorly paid foreign construction workers and widespread prostitution.

A middle-aged woman awakens one morning to a sense of dread, a malaise so deep that she studiously analyzes her life — both past and present — to uncover its source. So begins Hilma Wolitzer's new book, The Doctor's Daughter.

Like everything else Internet-related in China, podcasts are exploding in popularity. From film parodies to pornography, audio and video downloads are pushing the boundaries of the law and decency.

Israeli troops storm a prison in Jericho and take custody of six Palestinian militants, including those accused of murdering an Israeli cabinet minister five years ago. The action prompts riots in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where foreign diplomatic missions are attacked and foreigners are kidnapped.

Vali Nasr, professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., and author of the forthcoming The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future, talks with Robert Siegel about recent sectarian violence in Iraq.

This week, we're hearing from various Iraqis as they prepare to vote in the Dec. 15. Yenar Jabbar is an English student at Baghdad University. She has her undergraduate degree, but no job. She spoke to NPR at the university cafeteria about her feelings on the elections and the U.S. occupation.

After weeks of controversy, the results of groundbreaking experiments that purported to show how to make stem-cell lines from individual patients using cloning techniques will be retracted. A senior author of the paper, a top South Korean researcher, admits that some of the results were faked.